53% of virtue ethicists one-box (out of those who picked a side).
Seems plausible that it’s for kinda-FDT-like reasons, since virtue ethics is about ‘be the kind of person who’ and that’s basically what matters when other agents are modeling you. It also fits with Eliezer’s semi-joking(?) tweet “The rules say we must use consequentialism, but good people are deontologists, and virtue ethics is what actually works.”
Whereas people who give the pragmatic response to external-world skepticism seem more likely to have “join the millionaires club” reasons for one-boxing.
53% of virtue ethicists one-box (out of those who picked a side).
Seems plausible that it’s for kinda-FDT-like reasons, since virtue ethics is about ‘be the kind of person who’ and that’s basically what matters when other agents are modeling you. It also fits with Eliezer’s semi-joking(?) tweet “The rules say we must use consequentialism, but good people are deontologists, and virtue ethics is what actually works.”
Whereas people who give the pragmatic response to external-world skepticism seem more likely to have “join the millionaires club” reasons for one-boxing.